Expression in music through creative movement
This song was very popular amongst my students a few years ago. In addition to just singing the song together, I created this lesson for the students to uncover how musicians use tension and dynamics in a piece of music to create expression. The lesson is divided into three parts; first the students identified the form of the song and then described the expression in each section followed by creating their own dance or creative movements based on the expression that they discovered. At the conclusion of this lesson students were then asked to replicate that kind of intensity and expression in their own compositions.
Get the complete lesson plan here: Firework
Sharon G. Davis 